musictoolbox 0.0.43

A set of utilities to help you groom your music collection

This is a small toolbox of utilities written in Python 2 that help users groom their music collection.

What’s in the box

syncplaylists takes a number of file lists / playlists in the command line, and a destination directory, then synchronizes all the songs in the playlists to the destination directory, with optional modifications to the files and their names as they are copied to the destination directory. syncplaylists preserves your music collection’s directory structure.

syncplaylists requires a simple INI file in your home directory (name it .syncplaylists.ini) which must say how you want things to be transcoded:

` # cat .syncplaylists.ini [transcoding] mp3=copy m4a=copy ogg=copy flac=copy *=mp3 opus=copy `

Once you’ve created the INI file, here’s the quickstart version of how you actually use the tool:

` [user@laptop ~/Music]$ syncplaylists -vd Playlists/*.m3u /mnt/usbdrive/Music/ `

That will copy all songs listed in all M3U playlists within your ~/Music/Playlists folder directly into /mnt/usbdrive/Music, preserving the directory structure you have.

Run syncplaylists –help or see get_parser() in file synccli.py for more information.

genplaylist generates playlists. Run genplaylist –help or see get_parser() in file genplaylist for more information.

Requirements

This is a non-exhaustive list of requirements for most of these utilities to work:

• python-setuptools

• ffmpeg

• python-mutagen

• mp3gain

• madplay

• mplayer

• mppenc

• vorbis-tools

• flac